Improvement in fish-hooks



. No. 44,868, PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1864;

N. A, GARDINER, JR,

FISH HOOK.

UNITED I STATES PATEN OFFICE.

NATHAN A. GARDINER', JR, OF VVILLETT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH BRIGGS, OF NEYV YORK, N.

IMPROVEMENT IN FISH-HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,368, dated September 20, 1564.

To all whom "it may concern Be it known that I, NATHAN A; GARDINER, Jr., of Willett, Cortland county, New York, have invented a new and ImprovedQFislh Hook and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reierenee being bad to the accompanying drawings, and figures-and'letters of reference thereon, making part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved fish-hook as set ready for fishing, and Fig. 2 shows it as open.

My invention'consists in so constructing a hook that it shall strike and securely hold the fish firmly at the instant of biting.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will describe thecoustruetion and operation thereof.

I take steel wire of proper size and coil it one or lIlOFtlhllllGS round a mandrel for the spring), 0, having the forks (t ot'sufiicientlefigth to attach the hooks. I then take apiece of wire, I), and make a loop or ring, (I, towhieh the line is attached, and which shall iuclose the spring; 0 at itsupper end,-(having sufficient play,) while the lower end passes through the .eye 2, which forms part of the hook which. is

attached to the fork a. Upon the opposite fork is secured another hook, having an eye,

j, which is below the eye 0.

The operation will be as follows: The angler I places the bait upon either or both hooks and then presses them together until the spindle It will be obviousto any one that the spring,

with its eyes and hooks, may be made from a single piece of wire, and Idesig'n to have them so. made.

' I claim The combination of a pair of bearded hooks attached to or forming part of a coil-wire spring, 0, and pro\-'ided with eyes 0 and f, and

a rod, 1), having a line-eye, (l, for setting-and, releasing the hooks, whereby I am enabled to" make a cheap, simple, and efi'eciual springhook, the whole constructed and operating substantially as described and set forth.

r NATHAN-A. eltnnisnu, JR.

Vitnesses:

GEO. 'I. MGMINN, ISHMAEL E. GARDINER. 

